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Mrs. Davis from Denver, CO is requesting instructional technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Future Entrepreneurs in the Making

Help me give my students the tools to bring their creative visions to life and build real-world entrepreneurial skills using a heat press machine, a sublimation printer, and transfer papers.

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Mrs. Davis Respect Academy at Lincoln
Denver, CO Grades 9-12

Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

Celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

My Project

Every day, I look around my classroom and see a room full of brilliant, resilient, and visionary future entrepreneurs. My students are incredibly creative and driven, with many dreaming of designing their own apparel lines or launching their own small businesses. However, they attend a Title I school where financial hardships are a harsh, daily reality.

Talent and ambition are distributed equally among my students, but opportunity is not.

They are bursting with untapped creativity, yet the barrier they face isn't a lack of ideas or work ethic—it is simply that they have never had access to the professional-grade technology needed to bring their visions to life. Imagine the frustration of having a brilliant, innovative design, but knowing it will only ever exist as a sketch on a piece of paper or a file on a screen.

By funding a sublimation printer, transfer papers, and a heat press, you are doing so much more than purchasing classroom supplies. You are giving these deserving kids an unprecedented opportunity to build a fully functioning, student-run merchandise lab. With this complete production setup, my students will finally be able to transform their digital designs into tangible, professional-quality apparel.

Think about the immense pride a teenager will feel the very first time they hold a beautiful, finished product that they designed and manufactured with their own two hands. You are giving them a mini-manufacturing lab, but more importantly, you are giving them validation. By contributing to this project, you are showing them that their ideas have value, empowering them to step into their potential, and helping them build the lifelong confidence they need to succeed in their future careers.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

More than half of students from low‑income households

100 students impacted
Mrs. Davis Respect Academy at Lincoln Grades 9-12

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Denver, CO View local requests

More than half of students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

100 students impacted

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Where Your Donation Goes

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Brother Sublimation Printer (SP1) • Quill.com $413.99 1 $413.99
VEVOR Heat Press 16x20, 1700W Power Heat Press Machine, Fast Heating, High Pressure Heat Press Machine for T-Shirt, Digital Industrial Sublimation Printer for Heat Transfer Vinyl, Easy to Use, Black • Amazon Business $255.90 1 $255.90
Printers Jack Iron-On Heat Transfer Paper Dark & Light Bundle, 20 for Dark Fabric + 20 for Light Fabric, 8.5"x 11.7" T-Shirt Transfer Paper for Inkjet Printer Wash Durable, Long Lasting Transfer • Amazon Business $34.29 1 $34.29
30 Sheets Heat Transfer Paper for Black and Dark Fabric, 8.3 x 11.7" Iron-on Transfer Paper for T Shirt for Any Inkjet Printers, Washable, No Cracking, No Fading • Amazon Business $28.95 1 $28.95
Koala Sublimation Paper 8.5x11 Inch 100 Sheets for DIY Phone Cases Tumblers | Compatible with Inkjet Sublimation Printer and Sublimation Ink 123g • Amazon Business $13.29 1 $13.29

Materials cost

$746.42

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$11.20

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$787.62

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$138.99

Total project goal

$926.61

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $926.61

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 $926.61

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